Let the punishment fit the crime
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My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time--
To let the punishment fit the crime.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT The punishment did not fit the crime.
BENNY PARSONS I don't find the punishment fit the crime,
DARCY TUCKER This is a longtime employee. The punishment should fit the crime.
MARTIN DRUYAN I don't find the punishment fit the crime in Moe Mantha's case,
DARCY TUCKER “A government's judicial system must always make the punishment must fit the crime. Too much is ty...
TROY J. GAINEY The punishment doesn't fit the crime. I've done everything I can to get him out, or at least get him...
CARLY SIMON Punishment creates crime.
SILVIA HARTMANN The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligent...
CORRINE BROWN Punishment follows close on the heels of crime.
UNKNOWN The only punishment that does justice for the victims, the only punishment that fits the crime, is d...
PATRICK FITZGERALD Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.
GRACE POE Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
VITTORIO ALFIERI The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY A curse burns bright on crime.
AESCHYLUS We both agree this type of crime justifies this punishment.
LOUVON HARRIS (…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowar...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
VOLTAIRE Fear follows crime, and is its punishment
VOLTAIRE Fear follows crime, and is its punishment.
VOLTAIRE It is the crime that causes the shame, and not the punishment.
VIKRANT PARSAI I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus o...
JANET RENO Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.
ELIZABETH FRY Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the
criminal.
EURIPIDES Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Let the punishment match the offense.
CICERO Punishment follows close on crime.
[Lat., Culpam poena premit comes.]
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
ELI KHAMAROV The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
CONTE VITTORIO ALFIERI Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great Go...
TERRY PRATCHETT The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory t...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN We want to make sure he never sees the light of day.
GARY GAMBARDELLA The defendant has been proven guilty of participating in a crime of corruption. The punishment is fi...
CICUT SUTIARSO I believe in punishment. Someone commits a crime, they should be punished. But I also believe in jus...
DELNORA DUPREY Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'...
JOSTEIN GAARDER Those who notice, always notify, what they are noticing but we have to check that notification.
ARPIT PUROHIT If one person get shot and killed is called a crime, but if thousands of people get shot and killed ...
"BETA" METANI' MARASHI And then it happened. It was a detail, no more than that. A detail to which you pay no attention at ...
HERMAN KOCH Let someone who was not from among the convicts try reproaching a prisoner for his crime and abusing...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY If he believed in the full complement of evil in himself, he had to believe also in a natural compul...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering from the idea that he could make a theory, but w...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for h...
BENJAMIN MOSER Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. ...
JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak...
GEORGE ZEBROWSKI The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
[Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without pun...
RON CHERNOW The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.
BENIGNO AQUINO III Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the p...
JOHN RUSKIN The best crime stories are always about the crime and its consequences - you know, 'Crime And Pu...
PAUL GREENGRASS Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to ...
WOODY ALLEN Did you ask people to crime scenes on dates?
MAUREEN JOHNSON Let go, let life, and enjoy the journey…!
JAMES A. MURPHY Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow Wh...
MATT TAIBBI Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
[It., Non nella pena,
Nel delit...
VITTORIO ALFIERI We always live in the tommorow,which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which...
OSHO The only punishment that does justice for the victims, the only punishment that fits the crime, is d...
PATRICK FITZGERALD The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by t...
OSCAR WILDE One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
JUVENAL Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
CICERO I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awa...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with bui...
ARUNDHATI ROY Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...
JOHN STEINBECK Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific pla...
IMELDA MARCOS what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things.
A memory remains just a tiny spark.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.
CAREW PAPRITZ Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of gen...
ALCEE HASTINGS Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
WILLIAM COWPER Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory t...
H.L. MENCKEN Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
[Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He that's foolish in the fault, let him be wise in the
punishment.
GEORGE HERBERT The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB Whose the cap fit, let them where it.
BOB MARLEY Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented ...
JOSEPH JOUBERT You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men.
KATHERINE ARDEN I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.
There's Heaven then there's Hell niggas
One da...
JAY-Z I am very disappointed because the charges did not fit the crime. The deputy was trying to kill him.
LUIS CARRILLO He's bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated.
In this he was echoing the P...
TERRY PRATCHETT They traded their houses for the big house.
GARY GAMBARDELLA "That's one lock he won't be able to pick for ten years." (referring to a lock-picking house burglar...
GARY GAMBARDELLA Instead of living on a 130 acre farm making millions, he'll be living in an 8 by 8 cell making licen...
GARY GAMBARDELLA The candle-end had long been burning out in the bent candlestick, casting a dim light in this destit...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
P. J. O'ROURKE We've got to make sure that the young, violent, serious juvenile offender is punished, that it...
JANET RENO What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small mo...
IDA B. WELLS In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON The powerful are self-immunized from even inquiry, let alone punishment for their crimes.
NOAM CHOMSKY As aparições são, por assim dizer, pedaços ou fragmentos de outros mundos, o seu princípio. É ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for p...
HENRY FORD How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of cri...
HENRY GEORGE The hallmark of a false confession is where the confession did not fit with the knowable, verifiable...
STEVEN DRIZIN No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On ...
HANNAH ARENDT Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the o...
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